My name is Krista and I'm 16 years old. About 2 years ago, I started becoming interested in piercings. It was something that I was starting to see more and more among people in my age group and in the scene that I was starting to become a part of and I just couldn't ignore how cute alot of the piercings were. My favorite that I wasn't seeing much of was the lip piercing. Since I'm a minor, I can't just go out to a piercing studio and have it done just like that. I have to get parental consent. My mom absolutly detests the thought of piercings other than 'normal ones'.
At A Glance Author xKRISTAx Contact xKRISTAx@bme.anon When A year ago
I begged and begged for about a year and then, I found a way around this. I was at a Claire's™ store in Gatlinburg, Tn and saw a silver body clip that you can basically put anywhere and it will look like that area is pierced. I was with my grandmother at the time and she wouldn't let me buy it because she knew that my mother wouldn't approve, even if it was fake.
Once I got back home to Knoxville, I was out with some friends at the mall and I bought the clip from our Claire's™ store. I put it on in the perfect spot and left it there until I got home. Mom freaked, of course, and I proceeded to tell her it was fake. She immediately told me to take it off of my lip. I did, but I noticed that there was a small indention left on my lip where the clip had been. A light bulb suddenly turned on in my head. Whenever mom wasn't around, the body clip was on. I even started wearing it to school and telling people that I had gotten it professionally done at a local tattoo shop that was pretty well known. I did that because if something went wrong and it got infected or something along those lines, I could just blame it on the shop. I wouldn't have the "I told you that you shouldn't have done it yourself" comments thrown at me day after day. Basically, I didn't want to deal with other people if something went wrong.
After a couple of days of having it on day and night, it started to hurt to the point that I couldn't eat or drink without pain or even open my mouth very wide. I had to drink through straws. I had to tear my food into small pieces and eat really slow. I couldn't even really smile that big because of this. I sucked it up though because I loved how it looked on me. :] There was no way that I was going to let a silly little thing like pain get in the way of this cute little addition to my face.
Another few weeks went by and I was begining to think this thing would never go through my lip.
I was sitting in chemistry class one morning and something felt different about my lip. I couldn't really put my finger on it but something was just different.
So, I went to the bathroom and pulled my lip and, sure enough, the dingy little $3 body clip from Claire's™ had pierced my lip. I was so happy. I couldn't stop smiling. I had finally gotten what I wanted for so long.
However, I didn't even think of what mom was going to say when I got home.
She told me as soon as she walked through the front door to take that stupid thing off of my face. I told her I couldn't because it had gone all the way through earlier that day. She had fit for a little while, but then she calmed down and said that as long as I didn't do anything else stupid to my face, I could keep it.
Since then, I've tried to pierce the other side of my lip and complete my snake bites, but unfortunately, she caught me in the act and put her foot down. She made me take that one out despite how perfectly I had it matched up to the other side. I guess I'm going to have to wait for about another year before I can get my right side pierced.
Maybe my way of piercing my lip wasn't the fastest method of doing things, but it worked for me. I've had no problems as far as infection or anything like that yet so I think I did quite a good job.:]
People are suprised when they find out that I pierced it myself because they say it "looks so good." I also always get the question, "DIDN'T THAT HURT?!?!", and I simply reply with "Nah. not too bad. I did it myself." You better bet that I say that with a sense of pride.
However, I don't encourage anyone to do any self piercings. Things can go crazy wrong and you can really get yourself in a mess. I was just blessed.